March 2, 1960: Remember the Bamileke Genocide.
The then ‘La Republique du Cameroun’ killed more than 8000 people at the dawn of independence as the UPC armed faction challenged Ahidjo and his reign. During the killings, corpses were abandoned in the streets of villages, heads of prisoners who were beheaded littered all over the area and tens of thousands fleeing. Between February […] The post March 2, 1960: Remember the Bamileke Genocide. appeared first on TeboPost.
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The then ‘La Republique du Cameroun’ killed more than 8000 people at the dawn of independence as the UPC armed faction challenged Ahidjo and his reign.
During the killings, corpses were abandoned in the streets of villages, heads of prisoners who were beheaded littered all over the area and tens of thousands fleeing.
Between February 1960 and March 1960 alone, more than 150 Bamileke villages were razed by the Cameroonian army.
3 Hospitals, 12 agricultural stations, 40 bridges among others will also be destroyed according to historians.
The exact number of civilians slaughtered has never been documented and Nkongsamba, one of the most thriving cities in the country back then was abandoned and today is a shadow of its glory days now.
